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Engineer Girl - 2013 Engineering: Essential to Our Health - 31 views

  • 2013 Engineering: Essential to Our Health Contest Description It is hard to imagine what the world would be like without modern medicine. Doctors today have a wealth of tools at their disposal to combat human suffering. From complex robotic surgical suites that enable surgeons to operate on patients thousands of miles away to simple storage mechanisms for vaccines in the developing world, engineering and technology are central to the way we fight disease. There have been many successes on the road to a healthier planet, but many battles are still left to fight. The following five diseases are considered the leading causes of death throughout the world today*: Heart disease Stroke Influenza (and other lower respiratory infections) Emphysema (or COPD) Diarrhea
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      Description of Assignment
    • Meghan Mc Nealy
       
      Assignment Description 
    • Anthony Poco
       
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  • Grades 6-8: Describe an advance in the treatment or prevention of one of the diseases above that was developed through engineering. Explain why it is important and how engineers were involved. Identify specific engineering disciplines that have contributed to the technology and explain how the unique contribution of these different engineering disciplines is significant. No more than 750 words.
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      Assignment Description
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      Assignment Description for Grades 6-8.
    • jessicabatko Batko
       
      Description and rules
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    It is hard to imagine what the world would be like without modern medicine. Doctors today have a wealth of tools at their disposal to combat human suffering. From complex robotic surgical suites that enable surgeons to operate on patients thousands of miles away to simple storage mechanisms for vaccines in the developing world, engineering and technology are central to the way we fight disease. There have been many successes on the road to a healthier planet, but many battles are still left to fight. The following five diseases are considered the leading causes of death throughout the world today*: Heart disease Stroke Influenza (and other lower respiratory infections) Emphysema (or COPD) Diarrhea ESSAY: Describe an advance in the treatment or prevention of one of the diseases above that was developed through engineering. Explain why it is important and how engineers were involved. Identify specific engineering disciplines that have contributed to the technology and explain how the unique contribution of these different engineering disciplines is significant. No more than 750 words.
ryanhartley

Good Writing vs. Talented Writing | Brain Pickings - 0 views

  • Talented writing tends to contain more information, sentence for sentence, clause for clause, than merely good writing. … It also employs rhetorical parallels and differences. . . . It pays attention to the sounds and rhythms of its sentences. . . . Much of the information it proffers is implied. … These are among the things that indicate talent.
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    "The talented writer often uses rhetorically interesting, musical, or lyrical phrases that are briefer than the pedestrian way of saying "the same thing." The talented writer can explode, as with a verbal microscope, some fleeting sensation or action, tease out insights, and describe subsensations that we all recognize, even if we have rarely considered them before; that is, he or she describes them at greater length and tells more about them than other writers. In complex sentences with multiple clauses that relate in complex ways, the talented writer will organize those clauses in the chronological order in which the referents occur, despite the logical relation grammar imposes."
jessicabatko Batko

WebMD Cold & Flu Health Center â⊘⊘ Information on Influenza and the Common Cold - 0 views

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    This site leads you to other links that explains the flu and tells you how to stop it and helps you get over it.
jessicabatko Batko

Influenza - 0 views

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    This website helps you further understand what the influenza is all about, and what it means and how you get it and more forth.
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    i like how this describes what influenza is.
ryanhartley

BBC News - A Point of View: Science, magic, and madness - 0 views

  • When we insist, as all the wisest child psychologists do now, that every child is like a small scientist, we don't mean that she has esoteric knowledge of a broad range of subjects, or talks to angels, or makes lead into gold. We mean that she makes a theory about how her blocks are going to fall down and then tests it by knocking them over. And her range of knowledge in that way grows by leaps and bounds. Science is really just that child's groping, with wings on - no, not with wings on, rather up on stilts, awkward-looking earthbound instruments, that get you high enough to see the world. There's supposed to be a sign up on the Tower Of Pisa: "Please don't throw things from this tower". That sign is the best memorial that Galileo could ever have. Of course, I'm not sure that it's actually there. I'll have to go and look.
Tmack (Tommy) McClain

8 ways Minecraft works on your brain « Playable - 13 views

  • So if your kid is playing Minecraft, then according to deeply respected academic research and principles, she is not undertaking a mindless pastime. I’d argue playing Minecraft now might be one of the things that saves them from it in the future too.
  • So if your kid is playing Minecraft, then according to deeply respected academic research and principles, she is not undertaking a mindless pastime. I’d argue playing Minecraft now might be one of the things that saves them from it in the future too.
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  • Minecraft puts players to work by providing the imagination with images and metaphors that give it direction.
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      It seems so delicate and fancy of words, but all it is saying, is that Minecraft can be educational.
  • So if your kid is playing Minecraft, then according to deeply respected academic research and principles, she is not undertaking a mindless pastime. I’d argue playing Minecraft now might be one of the things that saves them from it in the future too.
  • The thing which most articles omit is understanding of why imagination is a primary trigger for learning.
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      Article!
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    Good resource.
ryanhartley

May 1970 : Poetry Magazine - 0 views

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    "Magazine's centennial with a new anthology! Order The Open Door and listen to selected audio poems. Poems & Poets Features Resources Programs & Initiatives Poetry magazine Home > Poetry Magazine > May 1970 Table of Contents Poetry Magazine Current Issue Table of Contents Browse All Issues Back to 1912 About Poetry Magazine TABLE OF CONTENTS Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on tumblr Share on email Share Print MAY 1970 This issue is sold out. Subscribe to Poetry Magazine Kaywynne Adams, Wendell Berry, Helen S. Chasin, David Galler, Theodore Holmes, H. B. Mallalieu, and more The Calling under the Breath W. S. MERWIN "
jessicabatko Batko

Vaccines for preventing influenza in healthy adults - 0 views

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    This is basically a doctors description of the general influenza and who it targets and what you can do to prevent it.
jessicabatko Batko

Flu Prevention, Symptoms and Facts - 0 views

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    How to prevent the flu and flu facts
douglas clements

SimCity 5 Gameplay Trailers Episode 1 and 2 - YouTube - 0 views

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    Here is a video of the new sim city part 1 and 2
Meghan Mc Nealy

Dreams of ideal flu vaccine are closer to reality - 0 views

  • Scientists at Stanford University and institutions around the country are researching new ways to boost the immune system and create a more effective vaccine that could be produced faster, without chicken eggs.
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      I am thinking about how the scientists will be able to do vaccines without chicken eggs and what their alternative might be. 
douglas clements

titanic-2jpg-5e542fec88b87b16.jpg (2048×1152) - 1 views

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    Some people say make a ship that sunk is a bad ideal. but some rich man is makeing the Titanic 2 and it is going to sail in 2016. I do no thank this is a good idea but its cool. 
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